Laidley, Theodore Thadeus Sobieski

Name	Town	State	From
Laidley, Theodore T. S.		Army of the United States	1857
Laidley, Theodore T. S.	Springfield	Massachusetts	1865
Laidley, Theodore T. S.	Watertown, Middlesex County	Massachusetts	1877
Laidley, Theodore T. S.	Watertown Arsenal, Middlesex County	Massachusetts	1880

Patent	Date	Remarks
17,935	August 4, 1857	Improved Projectile for Rifled Cannon Patent drawing Specification Specification, 2nd page
18,049	August 25, 1857	Improved Projectile for Rifled Cannon Patent drawing Specification Specification, 2nd page
22,957	February 15, 1859	Improvement in Tape Primers for FIre-Arms view patent
AI302	October 9, 1860	Improvement in Tape Primer for Fire-Arms Patent drawing Specification
51,324	December 6, 1865	Improvement in Priming Metallic Cartridges Patent drawing Specification
54,743	May 15, 1866	Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms (Laidley and Emery patent) Patent drawing Specification Specification, 2nd page
55,676	June 19, 1866	Improvement in Priming Metallic Cartridges Patent drawing Specification
77,988	May 19, 1868	Improvement in Tompion for Fire-Arms Patent drawing Specification Specification, 2nd page
140,144	June 24, 1873	Improvement in Cartridges for Fire-Arms view patent
193,612	July 31, 1877	Improvement in Metallic Cartridges Patent drawing Specification
199,723	January 29, 1878	Improvement in Powder for Cannons Patent drawing Specification
240,319	April 19, 1881	Heavy Rifled Gun Patent drawing Specification

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Some of his patens were utilized by the Whitney Arms Company Laidley was born in West Virginia in 1822 and died in Florida in 1886. Cadet at the U.S. Military Academy from July 1, 1838 to July 1, 1842 when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to BVT. SECOND LIEUT., ORDNANCE, JULY 1, 1842. Siege of Vera Cruz, Mar. 17-29, 1847, -- Battle of Cerro Gordo, Apr. 17-18, 1847, --and Siege of Puebla, Sep. 13-Oct. 12, 1847; as Asst. Ordnance Officer Watervliet Arsenal, (BVT. CAPT., APR. 18, 1847, FOR GALLANT AND MERITORIOUS CONDUCT IN THE BATTLE OF CERRO GORDO, MEX.) (BVT. MAJOR, OCT. 12, 1847, FOR GALLANT AND MERITORIOUS CONDUCT IN THE DEFENSE OF PUEBLA, MEX.) N.Y., 1848, --and Ft. Monroe Arsenal, Va., 1848-50; in command of Charleston Arsenal, S.C., 1850; as Asst. Ordnance Officer at Ft. Monroe Arsenal, Va., 1850-51, --at Watervliet Arsenal, N.Y., 1852-54; in command of North Carolina Arsenal, 1854-58; (CAPTAIN, ORDNANCE, JULY 1, 1856 FOR FOURTEEN YEARS' CONTINUOUS SERVICE) and in compiling and publishing a new edition of the Ordnance Manual, June 4, 1858, to Sep. 26, 1861. Served during the Rebellion of the Seceding States, 1861-66; as Inspector of Powder, Dec., 1861, to Feb. 1, 1862; in command of Frankford Arsenal, Feb. 1, 1862, to Aug. 19, 1864; as Inspector of Ordnance, Aug. 19 to Sep. 24, 1864; and in command of (MAJOR, ORDNANCE, JUNE 1, 1863) Springfield Armory, Mas., Oct. 27, 1864, to May 3, 1866, (inspector for Joslyn and Allin metallic cartridge rifle musket conversions, his marked guns TTSL) --and of New York Arsenal, (BVT. LIEUT.-COL., AND BVT. COLONEL, MAR. 13, 1865, FOR FAITHFUL AND MERITORIOUS SERVICES IN THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT) May 3, 1866, to LIEUT.-COLONEL, ORDNANCE, MAR. 7, 1867. In 1863, President Lincoln became interested in Ames (Horatio Ames, a New England industrial pioneer who was esperimenting with the construction of wrought-iron guns about 1851) wrought-iron weapons and personally gabe him an order for fifteen. Ames did provide fifteen 7-inch guns (125-pounders) in September 1864. Lincoln ordered a mixed board of Army and Navy officers to test the weapons at Bridgeport, Connecticut. The board included one Army ordnance officer, Major heodore T.S. Laidley. In 1872 there was an other trial and Lieutenant Colonel Laidley was member of the board. In 1873, the Secretary of War had directed that Lieutenant Colonel Laidley and Major Silas Crispin and James Benton "proceed to England, France, Germany, Austria, and Russia, for the purpose of collecting information in regard to the construction of heavy cannon and other ordnance manufactures." The three officers spent about one hundred days on the mission. Laidley-Emery' patent no.54,743. Laidley-Emery rifle similar externally to the Remington?Rolling Block, but with an additional locking bar pivoted on the hammer axis-pin, this was patented in 1866 by Major Theodore T.S. Laidley and Charles A. Emery, respectively the commandant and a 'machinist' of Springfield Armory. The prototype carbine was submitted to trials in 1865 by 'M.Y. Chick of New York', camouflaging its origins, but failed to impress. Though a few additional guns were made in the Armory, the ?Allin conversion system was preferred owing to the ease with which existing rifle-muskets could be altered. Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg Co. made a few Laidley-Emery rifles in the late 1860s, but rights were acquired by the Whitney Arms Company 1871. Whitney made military-style rifles and carbines of this type alongside sporting guns until 1882, when the lapse of patents granted to Joseph Rider allowed copies of the simpler Remington-type rolling block to be substituted.

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Some of his patens were utilized by the Whitney Arms Company

Laidley was born in West Virginia in 1822 and died in Florida in 1886.

Cadet at the U.S. Military Academy from July 1, 1838 to July 1, 1842 when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to BVT. SECOND LIEUT., ORDNANCE, JULY 1, 1842.

Siege of Vera Cruz, Mar. 17-29, 1847, -- Battle of Cerro Gordo, Apr. 17-18, 1847, --and Siege of Puebla, Sep. 13-Oct. 12, 1847; as Asst. Ordnance Officer Watervliet Arsenal, (BVT. CAPT., APR. 18, 1847, FOR GALLANT AND MERITORIOUS CONDUCT IN THE BATTLE OF CERRO GORDO, MEX.) (BVT. MAJOR, OCT. 12, 1847, FOR GALLANT AND MERITORIOUS CONDUCT IN THE DEFENSE OF PUEBLA, MEX.)

N.Y., 1848, --and Ft. Monroe Arsenal, Va., 1848-50; in command of Charleston Arsenal, S.C., 1850; as Asst. Ordnance Officer at Ft. Monroe Arsenal, Va., 1850-51, --at Watervliet Arsenal, N.Y., 1852-54; in command of North Carolina Arsenal, 1854-58; (CAPTAIN, ORDNANCE, JULY 1, 1856 FOR FOURTEEN YEARS' CONTINUOUS SERVICE) and in compiling and publishing a new edition of the Ordnance Manual, June 4, 1858, to Sep. 26, 1861. Served during the Rebellion of the Seceding States, 1861-66; as Inspector of Powder, Dec., 1861, to Feb. 1, 1862; in command of Frankford Arsenal, Feb. 1, 1862, to Aug. 19, 1864; as Inspector of Ordnance, Aug. 19 to Sep. 24, 1864; and in command of (MAJOR, ORDNANCE, JUNE 1, 1863)

Springfield Armory, Mas., Oct. 27, 1864, to May 3, 1866, (inspector for Joslyn and Allin metallic cartridge rifle musket conversions, his marked guns TTSL) --and of New York Arsenal, (BVT. LIEUT.-COL., AND BVT. COLONEL, MAR. 13, 1865, FOR FAITHFUL AND MERITORIOUS SERVICES IN THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT) May 3, 1866, to LIEUT.-COLONEL, ORDNANCE, MAR. 7, 1867.

In 1863, President Lincoln became interested in Ames (Horatio Ames, a New England industrial pioneer who was esperimenting with the construction of wrought-iron guns about 1851) wrought-iron weapons and personally gabe him an order for fifteen. Ames did provide fifteen 7-inch guns (125-pounders) in September 1864. Lincoln ordered a mixed board of Army and Navy officers to test the weapons at Bridgeport, Connecticut. The board included one Army ordnance officer, Major heodore T.S. Laidley.

In 1872 there was an other trial and Lieutenant Colonel Laidley was member of the board.

In 1873, the Secretary of War had directed that Lieutenant Colonel Laidley and Major Silas Crispin and James Benton "proceed to England, France, Germany, Austria, and Russia, for the purpose of collecting information in regard to the construction of heavy cannon and other ordnance manufactures." The three officers spent about one hundred days on the mission.

Laidley-Emery' patent no.54,743. Laidley-Emery rifle similar externally to the Remington?Rolling Block, but with an additional locking bar pivoted on the hammer axis-pin, this was patented in 1866 by Major Theodore T.S. Laidley and Charles A. Emery, respectively the commandant and a 'machinist' of Springfield Armory. The prototype carbine was submitted to trials in 1865 by 'M.Y. Chick of New York', camouflaging its origins, but failed to impress. Though a few additional guns were made in the Armory, the ?Allin conversion system was preferred owing to the ease with which existing rifle-muskets could be altered. Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg Co. made a few Laidley-Emery rifles in the late 1860s, but rights were acquired by the Whitney Arms Company 1871. Whitney made military-style rifles and carbines of this type alongside sporting guns until 1882, when the lapse of patents granted to Joseph Rider allowed copies of the simpler Remington-type rolling block to be substituted.